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A very experienced PM/WebDev came to us. His resume was fantastic but a bit strange. He wrote he had been working for 15 years but his experience in C# was 18 years. Though I was sceptical about this guy, others expected him to be a .NET guru. So, the interview began. The candidate described his brilliant career, then he said he wanted to move forward as a programmer and work with the newest technologies. It wasn't easy to ask him basic questions but they were in the list, so we needed to start with questions for juniors. I asked him to tell us about value types and reference types, and the answer was: about what? I repeated the question, and he said he didn't know about such complex things. I knew his resume was strange but I was disappointed. It turned out that our candidate didn't know C# at all.

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  • 5
    Wow. Why would anyone even try that. Like do you not expect people to ask *anything* a bit more involved when you say you have 18 years of experience in a language?
  • 1
    @niush And he even hadn't prepared for the interview. I noticed people with lack of knowledge don't prepare to interviews. They can easily google common questions but they don't do this.
  • 2
    @Gxost Probably Dunning-Kruger effect... "I'm smart enough anyway I don't need to prepare"
  • 2
    @12bitfloat He thought we'll like his enthusiasm but he did nothing to prove that he's really interested in learning. Also we were looking for a middle, not junior.
  • 4
    Reminded me guy who wrote that he know C# 5/5 and I interviewed him about python as company wanted someone who know a bit this and that.

    It ended up me explaining him how C# data structures work ( I don’t know C# ).
  • 0
    Can you explain what you might use an array for?

    RayRay? He's my cousin, I usually call him when I need to move something heavy
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